Our Cats and All About Them

Harrison Weir (1824 - 1906)

The Englishman Harrison Weir organized the first cat show in England in 1871. In 1887 he founded the National Cat Club and was its first President and Show Manager until his resignation in 1890.

Our Cats and all about them is concerned with cats and all about them. It describes numerous breeds of cats and what to look for in a cat show champion, and deals with the general management and common diseases of cats, as well as how to raise healthy kittens.

But there is also a hodge podge of cat related stories, games, nursery rhymes, superstitions, as well as a list of cat lovers and a chapter of "The Cat in Shakespeare". (Summary by Availle)

Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Animals, House & Home

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Dedication & Prefaces Availle
00:23:51
Play 02 Introductory & The First Cat Show WKBabb
00:08:40
Play 03 Habits TriciaG
00:13:31
Play 04 Trained Cats Stephanie Lee
00:06:49
Play 05 Long Haired Cats & The Angora Ann Boulais
00:10:15
Play 06 The Persian Cat Ann Boulais
00:08:00
Play 07 The Russian Long Haired Cat Ann Boulais
00:10:49
Play 08 The Tortoiseshell Cat & The Tortoiseshell-and-White Cat Ann Boulais
00:14:19
Play 09 The Brown Tabby Cat & Spotted Tabby Cat John Kooz
00:18:34
Play 10 10 The Abyssinian Dawn Larsen
00:07:03
Play 11 The Short Haired White Cat & The Black Cat & The Blue Cat Algy Pug
00:09:27
Play 12 The Black-and-White Cat & The White-and-Black Cat Bellona Times
00:06:56
Play 13 Siamese Cat Stephanie Lee
00:12:01
Play 14 The Manx Cat Michael Packard
00:07:05
Play 15 Various Colors Michael Packard
00:07:28
Play 16 Usefulness of Cats Nadine Eckert-Boulet
00:08:12
Play 17 General Management Part 1 John Kooz
00:15:33
Play 18 General Management Part 2 John Kooz
00:40:39
Play 19 Cat and Kittens TriciaG
00:10:45
Play 20 Kittens & Of Kittens in General & Management of Kittens and Cats John Kooz
00:17:14
Play 21 Points by Which Cats are Judged Dawn Larsen
00:33:30
Play 22 Diseases of Cats Stephanie Lee
00:12:08
Play 23 The Wild Cat of Britain Availle
00:40:12
Play 24 Concerning Cats John Kooz
00:45:12
Play 25 Cat Proverbs & The Cat of Shakespeare Amy Gramour
00:18:11
Play 26 Superstition and Witchcraft & Weather Notions Dawn Larsen
00:15:08
Play 27 A Cat Clock & Puss in Boots & Signs JimOCR
00:13:21
Play 28 The Law on Cat Killing & Dead Cats & The Cat as a Tormentor & Heraldry, etc. Amy Gramour
00:05:46
Play 29 Performing Cats & Cat Racing in Belgium jedopi
00:16:15
Play 30 Cat Images jedopi
00:08:08
Play 31 Lovers of Cats Algy Pug
00:09:15
Play 32 Games & Nursery Rhymes and Stories Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
00:11:21
Play 33 Fishing Cats & Cats and Horses JimOCR
00:10:13
Play 34 "Grammer's Cat and Ours" & Lost Ruth Golding
00:18:46